An excellent plan for his purpose--for in order to reach the other town it would be necessary to pass through Norcaster, where he would have to change stations.

And Norcaster was a very big city, and a thickly-populated one, and it had some obscure parts with which Mallalieu was well-acquainted--and in Norcaster he could enter on the first important stage of his flight.
And so, being determined, Mallalieu made his final preparations.

They were all connected with money.

If he felt a pang at the thought of leaving his Highmarket property behind him, it was assuaged by the reflection that, after all, that property only represented the price of his personal safety--perhaps (though he did not like to think of that) of his life.

Besides, events might turn out so luckily that the enjoyment of it might be restored to him--it was possible.